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Author
Language
English
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl: a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. Sera crosses paths with William Hanover, and together they slowly unravel the story behind the painting's subject: Austrian violinist Adele Von Bron, daughter to a high-ranking member of the Third Reich......
4) One candle
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
6) The Jackal
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The location of the glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth--and meets a male who changes everything forever. The Jackal has been in the camp for so long he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Trapped...
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
10) The departure
Author
Series
Owner volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visible in the night sky, the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus, the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, as twelve...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
8 books (300 pages) in a cloth bag ; (35 x 44 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. --
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and one discussion folder.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
8 books (ix, 356 pages) ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
13) Mandarin gate
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...